Executive Director
Resume:
PHILIP FLYNN III
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Professional Profile – I excel in complex organizations with multiple programs, products, locations and
functions; extensive experience with leading a workforce of over 150 and managing a budget with revenues
of over $8.5 million. I have solid strategic planning expertise creating a vision, setting organizational
direction, and planning and executing a mission. I inspire others through a collegial and consultative style, a
commitment to consensus building, teamwork and reaping the benefits of diversity.
Leadership – Achieve success by empowering self-directed teams. Highly skilled in organizational design,
membership and turnaround initiatives, assembling strategic alliances, economic management, compliance
issues, accreditation, contract negotiations, cycle-time reduction and shareholder value analysis.
Consultant Mw Ew R Consulting, Florida Oct. 2013 - present
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Provide counsel to organizations in the areas of strategic planning, capacity building, board
development, capital campaigns, major gifts, annual funds and planned giving.
Executive Director Save the Chimps, Florida & New Mexico 2009 –Sept. 2013
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Provided transactional leadership to change a private (990PF) foundation into a public (990)
foundation within 3 years. Oversee a staff of 71 and coordinate all activities. Responsible for the
survival of 294 chimpanzees living on 12 islands in a 150-acre facility in FL & 48 acre in NM.
Responsible for $6.3M annual budget development and management.
Ø Branded organization within the Sanctuary community as a Best Practices model
Ø Consulted, on behalf of organization, with US Congressional leaders regarding legislature
effecting sanctuaries in the US
Ø Increased membership file from 2,796 to 61,799 by introducing direct response programs
Ø Increased major giving from $3M to $5.5M in 15 months
Ø Oversee all regulatory and compliance issues
Executive Director Catholic Community Foundation, Florida 2007 – 2009
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Enacted transformational leadership that centralized 44 parishes, 17 private schools and 43 ministries
Diocese into one organization. Increased Foundation’s asset base by 75%. This success increased
giving to supported charities by 238%.
Ø Initiated 24 scholarship funds
Ø Initiated 19 Planned Giving programs
Ø Established donor advised fund program
Executive Director Geffen Cancer Foundation, Florida 2002 - 2007
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Enacted transformational leadership to turn a $1.5M Foundation into $7M in four years. Responsible
for a staff of 25 and coordinate all activities related to the Clinic as well as the Foundation.
Ø Obtained $3.5 million in Federal grants
Ø Obtained $2.2 million in private funds
Ø Obtained $2 million in Pharmaceutical Foundation grants
Chief Executive Officer Doctors For The Poor Florida, Haiti, Jamaica and Belize 1997 - 2002
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Organization’s first executive director responsible for start-up operations. Oversee a staff of 18 and
coordinate all activities. Established government contracts for 2 in-country hospitals and 15 clinics
within the West Indies. Increased medical team participation from with the United States by
approximately 400%.
Ø Developed and facilitated strategic plan that enabled the establishment of 4 new clinics
each servicing, on average, 890 patients per day in 28 months
Ø Increased membership file from 1,870 to 46,280 by introducing direct response programs
Ø Established Endowment of $5M dollars
Fundraising/charitable giving – Extensive experience in Planned Giving. Prepared grants providing
funding in excess of $19 million dollars. Developed creative events to raise in excess of $5.3 million dollars,
and possess a career major gift total of $193 million dollars. Experience in call center operations that yielded
$8.2 million in non-restricted donations. Presented numerous workshops on topics such as:
membership/relationship building, establishing legacy programs, leadership competencies and board
development.
Assistant Director, Major Gifts North Carolina State University, North Carolina 1993 - 1997
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Member of a three-person major gift team responsible for $120M in endowment donations. Managed
a major donor portfolio of 225. Supervised a support staff of 5 including stewardship and technology
team.
Ø Raised $21 million in major gifts
Ø Increased portfolio amount by 8% on average, yearly
Senior Program Director Dickinson Family Foundation, New York 1988 - 1993
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Responsible for the grant administration, evaluation and distribution process for support in the
amount of $2.5M annum. Developed annual reports and special RFP guidelines for grant recipients.
Increased distribution participation by approximately 8% yearly
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Developed streamlined RFP package
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Initiated and facilitated a “junior board” for younger members of the Dickinson Family
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Development Operations Manager SUNY New Paltz, New York 1980 - 1988
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Responsible for the infrastructure of a fledgling development office. Establish computer assisted
donor prospecting, took alumni database from index cards to computer operations, and initiated call
reporting mechanisms.
Cultivated community financial institutions for endowment management that resulted in
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the college’s first endowment gift - $250,000
Established base-line analysis of alumni donors
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Education
Master of Science in Administration
State University of New York, College at New Paltz
Bachelor of Science
State University of New York, College at New Paltz
Publications
Flynn, P. (2008, January). What Is Legacy Gifting? Florida Catholic, Vol. 69. No. 12
Flynn, P. (2005, March). Junior Boards – What, Why, When and How Foundation Source, 37-41
Flynn, P. (2004, January). Raising Children with Philanthropic Values More Than Money, Vol. 3 Is. I, 50-54
References
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Philip Flynn, III
Mr. Charles Perry
Board of Directors
Save the Chimps, Inc.
Atlanta, Georgia
Mr. John E. Moore, III
Managing Partner
Rossway Moore & Taylor
Vero Beach, Florida 32963
N. David Feigenbaum, MD (ret)
Chairman Emeritus, Board of Directors
Doctors For The Poor
Cary, North Carolina
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